After many years of training myself, strong emotions are now a trigger for me to look at something. I think that all emotions are triggers for us to grow in our level of consciousness.
It's definitely true that there are a lot of the devices we used on 'Star Trek,' that came out the imagination of the writers, and the creators that are actually in the world today.
Kids are sponges. They will emulate what they see and what they're exposed to.
This wired generation is kind of cool.
You can break down anything for a child, and you have to know what your child is ready for and what your child is not.
Reading a hard copy book, and reading a book on an iPad are slightly different experiences. What they both have in common though is that you must engage your imagination in the process.
With the technology of tablet computers, if we bring the right content to them and distribute them ubiquitously throughout the land, we can do something about America being ranked 29th in the world in terms of our level of education.
We want a book to be a book. We'll have all the interactive bells and whistles but our intent is to engage young people in reading, not to show them a movie.
All literature is political.
I fly my geek flag proudly. Absolutely.
I feel like I have been able to notice throughout the incremental march of history during the course of my own lifetime patterns emerging, and there's a sort of a rubber band effect that happens where social growth and change is concerned.
I'm excited to see how current and future technologies revolutionize the way we learn.
I want to live in an America where we are able to marshal all the resources we have at our disposal and that we - people like me, and companies like Apple and Intel and others - can make it our business to put a tablet computer in the hands of every single kid in America. Every single kid.
I have always been a fan of 'Star Trek.' I love Gene Roddenberry's vision of the future.
I've always been the sort of guy who's happiest doing more than one thing at a time.
Because storytelling, and visual storytelling, was put in the hands of everybody, and we have all now become storytellers.
I'm a firm believer and always have been that there aren't all that many things that you should not express to children in an age-appropriate manner, and as a parent, that is your job - to be discerning as to whether or not your child can handle the information, provided you have the ability to express yourself in that age-appropriate way.
The unvarnished truth is that we have spent the last decade funding the machinery of war, and our children have been sacrificed.
That's not a role you prepare for. There's no preparation. You don't have time to prepare for the reading of an audiobook. You do the reading of an audiobook in basically two days' time - an unabridged version, maybe three days.
If we marry educational technology with quality, enriching content, that's a circle of win.
Jim Carrey can do anything he wants, right? There are guys like that. I'm not one of those guys, so my career has been cobbled together with what the universe has put in front of me.
We had to figure out how to produce books in a cost-effective way.
I genuinely believe we have an opportunity to revolutionize how we educate our children.
I get most of my news updates from electronic and social media.
I'm enormously proud of the fact that Star Trek has really not just sparked an interest, but encouraged, a few generations of people to go into the sciences.
Yeah. I do. I think that we have to continue to expand the areas in which we want our kids to be literate. And social media's going to be a part of their lives. And why not? Why not give them a sense of what the rules of the road are?
As long as we are engaged in storytelling that moves the culture forward, it doesn't matter what format it is.
For me, literacy means freedom. For the individual and for society.
We have an amazing advantage right now in that we have developed technology that is so sexy, so engaging for kids.
I think reading is part of the birthright of the human being.
I've always been interested in gadgets and technology and I've always been a reader.
Human beings are the laziest creatures in the history of creation. We would rather not do anything if we could avoid it.
And it's here and it's ready and we can really revolutionize the way we educate our children with tablet computers, and I'm committed to doing whatever I can to speaking to whomever I can to send this signal - to pound this message home. Now is the time.
I felt like it was important to use my life to help others. I think we all feel that, to some degree. In fact, I know we do. I believe we all have a contribution to make, we have all come here with a specific intention to contribute something unique to who we are. And our job is to identify as best as we are able what that thing is that we are meant to do. What is our gift, what is our contribution.
It is no longer appropriate for me as an American to sit by and expect my government to get it done.
And when we do that, the world changes. There's a shift that happens that would not be there if it weren't for you, doing what you are meant to do.
We can't afford to sacrifice another generation of American children to bureaucratic politics. We've got to get it done. The future, the health, the life - our nation depends on it and it's just foolish to think or act otherwise.
In a society that functions optimally, those who can should naturally want to provide for those who can't. That's how it's designed to work. I truly believe we're here to take care of one another.
There would be no Star Trek unless there were transporter malfunctions.
Maturity is a series of shattered illusions.
It's not about division. It's not about politics. My concern is how do we come together?
Libraries do one thing that no other institution does and that's provide access to all.
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